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OK, now I understand why you were thankful... sounds like a great job.

I'm still new to programming but have a lot of hubris;-) I was wondering if you could give me a brief history of how you got to where you are today. Any advice you could give an aspiring Perl guru would be much appreciated.

The history's not so interesting. I got a job as an HTML monkey upon graduating college around '95, I wanted to do learn some web programming, I bought Learning Perl, I learned Perl, I kept learning Perl, a few years later I saw an job posting on the Boston Perl Mongers list for this job, so I sent in my resume, and I got the job, and here I am.

Probably the only good advice I can give from my experience is to keep learning, to find niches that interest you and learn all you can about them.